The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-22
THE DEADLOCK QUARTET.
Personal Information About the Four Repre-
sentatives Who Are Voting for Capt. Allen.

Personal Information About the Four Repre-
sentatives Who Are Voting for Capt. Allen.
The members of the Legislature who are most
talked about just now are the four Represent.
aives forming the Labor party Messrs. Glover,
Gates, Mackey and Robinson, and during the
continuance of the deadlock they are likely To
be conspicuous quartet The Representative
from Vigo. Wesley Glover, is the oldest of the
four. He will be ifty-four years old upon his
next birthday. His father was a farmer, and
Mr.. Glover was himself raised upon a farm
He, as we'll as his brothers, of whom there are
several, all learned the trade of nailers In 1856
and 1857 Mr. Glover was in Philadel-
phia attending school of pharmacy
|. Graduating at this school he entered the
drug business in Pennsylvania, afterward
III 1861. removing to Shelby, O., where he
continued the drug business during the war.
Having accumulated some money he, together
with his brothers, started West to look for a To-
cation for nail-making factory They located
at Terre Haute and the factory they then started.
but with which Mr.. Glover is not now connected,
has grown to a large and profitable business.
The works started with sixteen nail .machines,
and is now running LA. He was away from
Ierre Haute for some years and returned in 1884
He has long been recognized an earnest work
er in labor organizations. believing that the sue
cess of the interests of laboring men is the foun
datIon of the success of all interests in the
country, and that any injury to the working
people, VINO are the buyers. as well as producers
Is an injury to the markets, and that ev-
erybody in such a case suffers
1t was purely account of his
interest in the cause of labor that he was nomi-
mated to the position to " hich he was afterward
elected Glover q of hoio
der, with well shaped head we'll covered with
hair. and long, flowing beard, the longest beard
in the House. He makes no prerensions to ora
tory, but is able to express himself clearly on
any subject that comes before the House being
a man of considerable education, having at one
time, in Pennsylva nia, been an assistant in an
academy.
Prior Gates is the Representative from Fount
ain county. He will be forty nine years old on
the seventh day of next June. He is native
1ndianian, having been born in Orange county,
moving to Fountain county in 1853 He is
tall, farmer-llke looking man, with chin beard
which, as we'll as his hair. is slightly gray He
was raised on farm and has been farmer all
his life. though at times engaged in other bust
ness. He was in the mercantile business for three
years at sHarveysburg, and is now and has been
since 1850, engaged in the manufacture of drain
tile He volunteered in the army in 1862 and
served three years in the Sixty third Indiana
with the rank of captain. He has in his young
er days been y school teacher, and is a man who
knows much OF men and affairs In 1866 he was
a candidate for sheriff in Fountain county, and
was elected, but was counted out by the Demo
Gratis lie has never before held Office. He ran
for Representative two years ago. and was beat
en- IA votes This time he comes to the Lepisla-
ture elected by 101 votes.
Representative Mackey, of Knox Gibbs and
vanLerourg, is probably the youngest man in
the House, being only twenty-eight years old
he was born in Shelby county on farm, and with
the exception of FIVE years service soldier in the
regular army, Ninth Cavalry, which he entefed
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in this State nearly all his life He is rather tail
and IS quite slender. In his personal appearance
there Is no marked characteristic that would he
likely to attract special attention from the casual
observer He is very attentive to the proceed
ings in the House. and the call of his name when
his vote is wanted on any matter ALWAYS brings
prompt and loud response
+. j. s. Robinson whom the Democrats are
curslng and pleading with has, with the excep-
ton of two years in Missouri when between the
ages of ten and twelve years, lived in Indiana
all his life. He was born and bred upon farm
and has been farmer most of his lfe He has
lived IN Clay county since 1851. For time he
was clerk in store at Harmony he is now
farming, and lives at Cloverland He is a man
OF ready speech. and has some acquaintance
with books He went to college two years at
Mestheid. Ill, and taught school ninety Ave
days at Cloverland. He was q Republican
until 1874 when he joined the Greenback
party. In 1873 he" was a candidate for
Representative on the Greenback ticket There
were three candidates In the field, and he was
defeated. In 1880 he was the elector of the
Eight district on the Greenback ticket for James
B. Weaver for President. He has been success
lively elected to the Legislature in 1882 1884 and
1886, having each time been nominated by the
Greenoackers and supported by the Democrats
He is at the present time member of the Green
lack Labor State central committee for the
Eighth district 81 am not now Democrat and
never have been," said Mr.. Robinson in con-
versation Yesterday. II was Republican, and
am now a Greenbacker. It is true had Damo-
cratic support to aid in my election, but am not
Democrat"